Whereas GW may or may not be a real concern
Climate change is a legitimate concern and it should always be so. The earth has gone through series of cooling and warming periods that had catastrophic consequences to organisms adapted to both climates. That mega-fauna and most dinosaurs are gone could be due to Ice Ages. That Smilodon and Mastodon are no longer here could be attributed to the end of the Ice Age. Being that humans are organisms as well, climate affects us just as much.
the fact that carbon ressources are by their nature limited (and that we may be approaching Peak Oil or even past it) trumps everything else.
I agree completely. I agree that we should be looking away from fossil fuels, not only because its inevitable depletion, but pollution is real. Carcinogens in the air is real and it is legitimately not good for organisms.
The problem that I have is that some people have misused and manipulated the data to spawn an hysteria. The prophets of such doomsday scenario's have exploited the situation and profited generously on a false premise and injected the world with guilt for the Industrial Era, which, by the way, has saved billions of more lives in comparison.
The other day I took the kids to see one of the new 3-D movies out (as 3-D movies have become popularized again). Near the exit of the theater are recycling dispensary for the 3-D glasses. The wording is something the effect of, "Go green and be kind to our planet and recycle your glasses." Oh, please... Yes, lets pretend for one fucking second that your concern for recycling is in the interest of the planet rather than the obvious reason which is recycling of the glasses so that you can reuse them.
Americans should have an added reason not to consume oil: lots of it finance terrorists activities or at least suspicious activities that aren't in their best interests (e.g: Middle East). Their dependency on oil also makes them weaker when negotiating with oil exporting countries, something I thought libertarians and conservatives would be most concerned about.
Some conservatives for years have hidden or minimized the technology to go away from oil. Why? Because they were or knew oil barons and are on the Big Oil payroll. We could have shifted away from oil years ago, or at least started to make that transition away from oil. But it was suppressed.
The dependency on oil, especially foreign oil, is a big problem. The US should never have been so dependent on foreign oil. That's just one more reason why we should shift away from it.
I guess the point I am trying to make in general is that special interests groups exist to subvert and to dominate. But it seems especially sinister and disgusting when it is done under the pretext of "saving the planet."
Edited by Hyroglyphx, : No reason given.
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